Nordkirchen is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld, in

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. Nordkirchen's most famous site is

Schloss Nordkirchen Schloss Nordkirchen is a palace situated in the town of Nordkirchen in the Coesfeld administrative district in the state of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. The ''schloss'' was largely built between 1703 and 1734 and is known as the "Versaille ...

, built in the 18th century for a local bishop and known as the

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, as it is the largest residence in that part of Germany. Nordkirchen is known as location of a transmission site for

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for transmitting the program of

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, the

Nordkirchen transmitter The Nordkirchen transmitter was a medium-wave broadcasting facility of Media Broadcast and former Deutsche Telekom near Nordkirchen in Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was built in 1979 and 1980 after and finally de-funct in 2018. Transmitter ...

Mayor

The mayor is Dietmar Bergmann. He was elected in 2009 and reelected in 2014 and 2020.

References

Coesfeld (district) {{Coesfeld-geo-stub

Mayor

See also

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